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Holmes was not a fan of human rights. “All my life I have sneered at the natural rights of man,” he wrote Laski.<ref>Holmes to Laski, August 6, 1917, reprinted in Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=q_MfA5IcTxoC Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935'', Volume 1] (Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 96</ref> “You respect the rights of man,” he wrote. “I don't, except those things a given crowd will fight for.”<ref>Holmes to Laski, June 1, 1927, reprinted in Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed., ''[http://ia331339.us.archive.org/1/items/holmeslaskilette017767mbp/holmeslaskilette017767mbp.pdf Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935'', Volume 2] (Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 948 (PDF p. 148)</ref> Elsewhere, he wrote that human rights are merely what a given crowd will fight for “successfully.”<ref>Holmes to Laski, December 3, 1917, reprinted in Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=q_MfA5IcTxoC Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935'', Volume 1] (Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 115</ref>

Holmes was not a fan of human rights. “All my life I have sneered at the natural rights of man,” he wrote Laski.<ref>Holmes to Laski, August 6, 1917, reprinted in Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=q_MfA5IcTxoC Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935'', Volume 1] (Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 96</ref> “You respect the rights of man,” he wrote. “I don't, except those things a given crowd will fight for.”<ref>Holmes to Laski, June 1, 1927, reprinted in Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed., ''[http://ia331339.us.archive.org/1/items/holmeslaskilette017767mbp/holmeslaskilette017767mbp.pdf Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935'', Volume 2] (Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 948 (PDF p. 148)</ref> Elsewhere, he wrote that human rights are merely what a given crowd will fight for “successfully.”<ref>Holmes to Laski, December 3, 1917, reprinted in Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=q_MfA5IcTxoC Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935'', Volume 1] (Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 115</ref>

==Free Speech==

===Free Speech===

During World War I, the administration of [[Woodrow Wilson]], a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], pushed through the "Espionage Act," under which it arrested anti-war protesters. In 1919 Holmes upheld the conviction of [[Socialist]] Party leader [[Eugene Debs]].<ref>G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=sGDdFZ-vIi8C Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self]'' (Oxford University Press, 1995) ISBN 0195101286, p. 106</ref> Holmes was subsequently among those targeted for attempted bombing by domestic terrorists.<ref>Paul Avrich, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=lm0SCspDOjQC Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background]'' (Princeton University Press, 1996), ISBN 0691026041, p. 143</ref>

During World War I, the administration of [[Woodrow Wilson]], a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], pushed through the "Espionage Act," under which it arrested anti-war protesters. In 1919 Holmes upheld the conviction of [[Socialist]] Party leader [[Eugene Debs]].<ref>G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=sGDdFZ-vIi8C Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self]'' (Oxford University Press, 1995) ISBN 0195101286, p. 106</ref> Holmes was subsequently among those targeted for attempted bombing by domestic terrorists.<ref>Paul Avrich, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=lm0SCspDOjQC Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background]'' (Princeton University Press, 1996), ISBN 0691026041, p. 143</ref>